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- Disk Tips: Preparing ESDI Drives on a Western Digital 1007V
- controller for use with NetWare
-
- Mickey Applebaum
- Wasatch Education Systems/NetWire Sysop
-
- Following are instructions for formatting and using ESDI drives
- connected to the Western Digital 1007V SE1/SE2 for use with ELS-I
- 2.0a, 2.12, ELS-II 2.1x, Advanced NetWare 2.0a, 2.1x and SFT
- NetWare 2.1x, and NetWare 386. These instructions are NOT a
- replacement for reading the manual that comes with the
- controller, or for understanding HOW the controller works. These
- are just to assist in getting your drives running as quickly as
- possible. These instructions assume that you have the version of
- the
- controller with the BIOS roms installed. Also, be aware that
- NetWare 286 has a cylinder limit of 1024, some very high capacity
- drives (greater than 512 meg) will still have more cylinders
- available even after enabling the sector translation. I have
- included the new instructions for preparing these drives for
- NetWare 286. Be aware that in NetWare 286 2.0a (whether ELS, ANW
- or SFT) there is a limit of 17 sectors per track allowed for ISA
- channel disk drives. This controller, as do most other ESDI
- controllers, has a PHYSICAL SECTOR PER TRACK LIMIT of 53 Sectors
- Per Track for drives greater than 380 meg, and 34 Sectors Per
- Track for drives under 380 meg. Please check the jumpers on your
- hard drive if it is capable of having multiple settings for
- physical SPT and set it accordingly. Using the improper number
- of physical sectors per track will produce a drastic performance
- penalty and problems with data integrity.
-
- 1) Set jumper W1 1-2 ON (This DISABLES the 64k on board
- cache)
-
- 2) Set Jumper W1 3-4 ON (This ENABLES a 7 byte error
- correction ECC)
-
- 3) Set jumper W1 5-6 OFF (This ENABLES Sector Translation)
- 4) Set jumper W1 7-8 OFF (This is a reserved jumper and MUST
- be off)
-
- 5) Set jumper W1 9-10 OFF (This sets the physical SPT to be
- determined by the drive)
-
- 6) Set jumper W1 11-12 OFF (This disables the alternate sector
- per track and increases the drives capacity by 1/34th to
- 1/53rd depending on the number of physical sectors)
-
- 7) Set jumper W3 1-2 OFF (This ENABLES the on controller
- ROM)
-
- 8) Set Jumper W7 1-2 ON (This sets IRQ 14)
-
- 9) Set jumper W8 2-3 ON (This sets BIOS ROM Address to
- CC00)
-
- 10) Set jumper W12 1-2 OFF (Sets Primary hard disk address)
-
- 11) Install the hard drive(s) and controller into your
- computer.
-
- 12) Run your set up program and set the hard drive type(s) to
- 1. 13) Reboot with DOS and run the DEBUG program.
-
- 14) At the DEBUG - Prompt type G=CC00:5 (This runs the ROM
- format program).
-
- 15) You should be presented with a menu, and a parameter table
- for the installed drives.
-
- 16) Choose Option 7 and select the NON-Translation Option, in
- other words, choose the drive type that matches the physical
- geometry listed at the top of the menu. Be sure to choose
- the standard non-translation mode (the first one after NO
- DRIVE or TYPE 0). Exit from the menu program and reboot the
- computer.
-
- 17) Re-run the DEBUG program and start the menu program again
- with the G=CC00:5 command.
-
- 18) Choose option 2 (Low Level Format All of Drive). Do option
- 2 for each drive attached. Respond NO when asked if you want
- to format the alternate sector.
-
- 19) Choose Option 3 (Mark Defect List Automatically). This
- will save the manufacturers embedded defect list. Choose
- this for all drives attached to the controller.
-
- 20) Choose Option 5 (Verify Drive, All of Drive). This will
- compare the Manufacturers defect table to the drive surface
- with a READ ONLY scan of the disk media. Any new bad
- sectors will be marked and lock out. Do this for all the
- drives attached to the controller.
-
- 21) Choose Option 6 (Surface Analysis All of Drive). This will
- do a read/write surface analysis of the drive and test for
- new bad sectors. If it finds any it will add them to the
- defect list and mark the sector bad and lock it out. Do
- this for all drives attached to the controller. This
- prepares a NetWare ready bad track table.
- 22) This step chooses the Sector Translation Mode you will be
- using. It is broken down by NetWare version. Please be
- sure to select the proper Translation mode for your NetWare
- version.
-
- a) NetWare 286 2.0a (ELS, Advanced, and SFT): Choose
- Option 7 and select 17 Sector Translation mode for
- each drive attached.
-
- b) NetWare 286 2.1x (ELS-I, ELS-II, Advanced, SFT):
- Choose option 7 and select the 63 Sector
- Translation mode for each drive attached. For
- drives greater than 512 meg see note at bottom.
-
- c) NetWare 386 3.0 and 3.1: Choose Option 7 and
- maintain Standard Non-Translation Mode.
-
- This concludes the Disk Drive Format and preparation section for
- the WD 1007V controller and hard drives.
- NetWare 286 2.0a (ELS, ANW, SFT) generation and preparation
- instructions. Do NOT format the hard drive with the COMPSURF
- utility as this will wipe out the sector translation, and
- embedded bad track info.
-
- 1) Generate the OS file as normal.
-
- 2) Choose Option 1 on the Installation Menu and create the
- partition table on the first drive.
-
- 3) Create the Volume Definition.
-
- 4) Load the NetWare System and Public files.
-
- 5) Choose Option 1 again if you have a second drive and create
- the partition table.
-
- 6) Create the Volume definition on this drive.
-
- NetWare 286 2.1x (ELS-I, ELS-II Advanced, SFT) with drives LESS
- THAN 512 megabytes. Do NOT format the hard drives with COMPSURF
- as this will wipe out the sector translation, and embedded bad
- track info.
-
- 1) Run NETGEN and select the AT-Standard controller card
- (ISADISK or ATDISK) in the Disk Controller section (This
- Option is NOT available in ELS NetWare as it defaults to the
- ISADISK driver).
-
- 2) If you MUST do a COMPSURF remember to answer NO or 0 to ALL
- questions EXCEPT Maintain Bad Track Info and the last one
- (Are these parameters correct).
-
- 3) Go into NetWare Installation and create the partition table
- and volume definitions.
-
- 4) Load the NetWare files.
-
- NetWare 286 2.1x (Advanced and SFT ONLY) and drives GREATER THAN
- 512 megabytes. Do NOT format the hard drives with COMPSURF as
- this will wipe out the sector translation, and embedded bad track
- info.
-
- 1) From DL 8 (Novell Patch/Driver) on NOVA in NETWIRE get the
- files LOADER.ZIP and ISADSK.ARC.
-
- 2) Unzip/arc these files and copy the included drivers
- (LOADER.DAT, INSTOVL.OBJ, ISADISK.DSK and ISADISK.OBJ) onto
- the appropriate working copies of the NetGen diskettes. If
- your set of NetWare uses the ATDISK.DSK/OBJ files delete
- these before continuing.
-
- 3) Run NETGEN and select the ISADISK Industry Standard driver.
- Continue the generation as normal.
- 4) When presented with the NetWare Installation option on the
- NetGen menu (on the machine to be set up as the file server,
- after the NetWare Operating System file and Utilities Files
- are generated, Linked and configured) select the DEFAULT
- INSTALLATION option.
-
- 5) Create and Save the PARTITION TABLE. This will create a
- Non-DOS compatible partition which will not be limited to
- the original AT BIOS/DOS Compatible Partition limitation of
- 1024 cylinders. Exit back to the NETGEN Menu.
-
- 6) Select NetWare Installation and choose the CUSTOM
- INSTALLATION option. From here you can modify the VOLUME
- information as much as you need/desire, but do NOT choose
- the PARTITION TABLE option or you will flag the partition
- as DOS Compatible and have cylinder wrap problems.
-
- 7) Save the volume information you need, then select the
- option to load the OS and System and Public files.
-
- 8) Continue the Installation procedure and load all the disk
- files.
-
- NetWare 386 installation options.
-
- 1) Boot with DOS and run FDISK. Create a DOS partition of at
- least 2 meg, then flag it as being the Active partition.
- Exit FDISK, reboot the computer and format (FORMAT C: /S)
- the DOS partition. Copy the files from the SYSTEM disk(s).
-
- 2) Run SERVER.EXE
-
- 3) LOAD ISADISK
-
- 4) LOAD INSTALL.NLM
-
- 5) Create a NetWare partition using the rest of the disk
- capacity. If you have other drives on the controller
- partition them also.
-
- 6) Choose the option to do a DESTRUCTIVE SURFACE TEST in
- INSTALL.NLM's DISK OPTIONS menu. Do this test on all the
- drives attached to this controller.
-
- 7) Create the NetWare Volume information and continue the
- NetWare Installation.